Improvement in calendars



H. MEINEKE. Calendars.

NO. 209,577. Patehted Nov, 5,1878.

u. PEI'ERS, PHTO-LITHOGRAPH ER. WASHINGTON, b. c.

NITED STATES PATENT C)FFICE.

HEINRIOH MEINEKE, OF HANNOVER, PRUSSIA, ASSIGNOR T0 CONSTANTIN sornurnr, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IM PROVEM ENT IN CALENDRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,577, dated November 5, 1878; application fi1ed August 29, 1878.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH MEINEKE, of Hannover, Prussia, have invented a new and Improved Memorandum Oalenda-r, of which the following is a speeification:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved memorandunrcalendar. Fig. 2 is a perspeetive view of the same; Fig. 3, a detail f-ace view of a modification of the pad; Fig. 4, a side "iew of a modified eonstruction of the calendar; Fig. 5, a cross-section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

This invention relates to a new portable memorandum-calendar, to be used on oicedesks and other places as a convenient source of information.

The invention eonsists, principally, in the eombination of a detachable memorandum and calendar pad With a fastening device and snp porting frame or stand, as hereinafter more fu1ly described.

The letter A in the drawing represents the frame or stand of my improved calendar. The same is preferaoly made of wood, of the shape indicated in Fig. 1, or of other convenient form. Against the inclined faee a of this frame or stand is placed apad, B, of papers, said pad being composed of as 1nany sheets b b as there are days in the year, each sheet having imprinted upon it the proper day and month in the order in which the sheet is placed into the pad. The several sheets b are united into a pad hy a strip, 0, of paper or other material, whieh is gummed around their upper ends, in marmer shown. This leavesthe lower parts of the sheets free to be turned up and inspeeted. D is a screw or pin passed through the upper part of the pad B into the frame or stand A, for holding the parts together. The pad has an aperture for receiving the sorew. By unfastening said screw or pin the pad may be removed at the end of a year or other period of time and replaced by another.

The upper part of the pad B and stand A wil1 or may eonstitute a pen-raak.

The sheets b 12 are perforated laterally, either direetly helow the strip c, as shown at 11 in Fig. 2, or near their middle, as at 6 in Fig. 3, and they are provided with blank portions f f 'or memoranda, as indioated in the drawing.

top, as in Fig. 2, or left in the pad vvhen the sheets are perforated below the blank portions, as in Fig. 3.

In Figs. 4: and 5 is shown a modification of the invention, in whieh, instead of the screw D, a spring-clamp, E, is employed for holding the pad in proper contact with the stand or frame A. By springng the clamp E off the pad the Iatter may be readily removed and replaced by another at the end of ayear or other period of time.

It wiil be seen that by the use of the detaehable pad B on the support A, having a declined faee at an angle less than forty degrees, as shown in Fig. 4, the pad is always in proper condition to be written upon, even after a series of sheets shail have been removed.

The stand carrying the pad will constitute also a paper-weight.

It will also be elearly seen that b v uniting the upper e1ids of the leaves which eonstitu-te the pad into a compact stnmp, and by fastening this stump simply in marmer stated, the

leaves are all aceessible, and yet the stum'p detachable after all the leaves shall have been removed.

I claim 1. 'lhe detachahle caiendar-pad B, formed into a stump at the upper end, which stmp is perforated, combined With a pin, D, and stand A, all arranged so that the pin projects from the inclined aee of the stand on whch the pad itself rests, substantia-lly as speoified.

2. The combination of the detachable calendar-pad B With the stand or frame A, and with the cl amping device that secures the stump -at the upper end of the pad to the face of said stand or frame, but permits the removal of said stamp at any time, and always leaves the 1ower parts of the sheets constituting the pad aocessible, substantially as speoified.

'lhe above description of my invention signed this 7th day of August, 1878.

HEINRIOH MEINEKE. Witnesses:

A. M. SUNN, Orro DAVISSON 

